Various Lockheed military transport projects

Dronte · 9 April 2006

Some unbuilt US military Transports :

Lockheed LGA-144, ' 80 project .Kind of a Super Galaxy with a longitude of 88 meters and able to load 180 tons (source: magazine of scientific popularization "Muy Interesante" May 1986)

A study of Lockheed of the '80 decade for a transport military propfan motorized (source:magazine of scientific popularization "Muy Interesante" July 1986)

The discarded proposals of Lockheed and Boeing for the program that gave as a result at the C-17. I find the proposal of Boeing reallyinteresting, described like a tri-engine development of the YC-14 with an unitary power of each motor of 22.680 Kg and able to transport 63.500 kg to 3860 kilometers. (source: "Interavia" magazine 8/1981)

Finally Lockheed concept for a possible future VTOL tactical airlifter.(source: Military Technology Vol.XI Issue 11.1987)

TinWing · 9 April 2006

I have seen the Lockheed propfan picture before.

I am also familiar with line drawings of the Boeing tri-jet military transport, and have suspected that it was a competitor to the eventual McDonnell Douglas C-17. The particular picture is new to me, though.

Actually, just about every picture is new to me.

Triton · 23 February 2010

Lockheed missile transporter glider concept artwork

[link no longer active]

Attached to the artwork:

FOR RELEASE 6:30 AM EST 11/10/60

Sunnyvale, CA: Artist's concept of 211-ft wing-span glider that dwarfs the towing aircraft is Lockheed Missiles and Space Division's to problem of transporting huge missiles from factory to launch site. There are no existing road networks capable of accommodating the multi-tonned rockets and the only existing solution has been the use of river barges. Lockheed claims that towed gliders will be faster and cheaper and will use existing cargo aircraft. This cutaway shows how a rocket such as the Saturn would be transported.

UPI TELEPHOTO

Triton · 21 September 2012

Artist's impression of counterrotation wing-mount propfan military aircraft.

Source:
Hager, Roy D.; Vrabel, Deborah. Advanced Turbofan Project, NASA Glenn Research Center, Jan. 1, 1988
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890003194_1989003194.pdf

Pioneer · 22 September 2012

TinWing said:
I have seen the Lockheed propfan picture before.

I am also familiar with line drawings of the Boeing tri-jet military transport, and have suspected that it was a competitor to the eventual McDonnell Douglas C-17. The particular picture is new to me, though.

Actually, just about every picture is new to me.

I too would love to see more on the Boeing CX tri-engine design TinWing!!

Regards
Pioneer

hesham · 9 October 2012

DonaldM said:
Artist's impression of counterrotation wing-mount propfan military aircraft.

Source:
Hager, Roy D.; Vrabel, Deborah. Advanced Turbofan Project, NASA Glenn Research Center, Jan. 1, 1988
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890003194_1989003194.pdf

From the same source.

hesham · 1 November 2013

Hi,

in the Germany Museum site,they display a Lockheed VTOL transport aircraft
with V-tail,and they wrote under that artist drawing L-1376,did they mean
CL-1376 ?,specially the wrote before under one or two aircraft for Lockheed
aircraft the suffix "L",and that was indicated to CL designation to a well know
aircraft,I don't know.

http://kulturserver-nds.de/home/hubtest/medien/Typenkartei3953xGUN7x9T3Z7.pdf

page 57

Stargazer · 1 November 2013

hesham said:
L-1376,did they mean
CL-1376 ?,specially the wrote before under one or two aircraft for Lockheed
aircraft the suffix "L",and that was indicated to CL designation to a well know
aircraft,I don't know

No, no, no! This is exactly the reason why I didn't want for you to go and post that stuff all over the place!

You jump to conclusions without trying to understand how this thing works! Not only you invent the hyphenated "L-1376" designation (which, thanks to you, will be in Google now in a few hours' time) but you fail to see that there is also "L:" data in many of the other non-Lockheed cards. Can't you see this?

Look at the files and compare how they're done. Even if you speak no German you will see that the same entries exist on every file.
"T:" letter is for Type. "C:" is for Country. "P:" is for Photographer. "R:" is presumably for Reference (of the book in the library). I do not know what "L:" stands for but it is always followed by alphanumerical codes, so it probably indicates either the number of the shelf or folder in which the original document lies.

hesham, the moderators' warning from a few months ago still stands: if you randomly post unverified or inept information from these German files, we will edit or remove your posts!

hesham · 1 November 2013

OK Stargazer,

I am just asking,may be someone had a more info,and I know very
well that number could be hypothetical.

circle-5 · 29 March 2014

When one Galaxy is just not enough...

(Image courtesy of eBay)

ouroboros · 4 April 2014

circle-5 said:
When one Galaxy is just not enough...

(Image courtesy of eBay)

I always wondered why the double galaxy didn't have a joined tailplane...

hesham · 18 December 2014

Hi,

here is various Lockheed Advanced Military Turboprop Cargo Aircraft Projects;

http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.44903

XB-70 · 30 December 2014

Lockheed Turboprop Cargo Aircraft Systems Study, November 1981 found on NTRS

http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19820008197

Lockheed Georgia study on Advanced Turboprop transport aircraft. From page 102 on, study for possible dual civil-military role for a Propfan transport aircraft. Configuration No.3 was modified to USAF's C-X specifications.

The artwork on the last page is very similar to the Lockheed 4-engined Propfan concept in Post 1.

Seems like Lockheed put a lot of effort in the Propfan concept, with the Cl-1320 RECAT, various Civil and Military transport conepts and the PTA testbed.

hesham · 30 December 2014

Great find XB-70.

hesham · 5 February 2015

Re: Various Lockheed civil-military transport projects

Hi,

I had to change the title,because the only topic for Various Lockheed Civilian Projects was closed,
and I hope to change its title for Lockheed Civil Transport and Airliner Projects and re-open it;
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,181.15.html

Here is a double-deck airliner project for Lockheed-California Company;

http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.48195?journalCode=ja

hesham · 12 February 2015

Re: Various Lockheed civil-military transport projects

Hi,

here is a Lockheed high-speed propeller-driven aircraft.

http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.57353

hesham · 9 January 2016

Hi,

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19740325/15/2/zoom

hesham · 21 January 2016

Hi,

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19810330/14/2

hesham · 11 March 2016

Hi,

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19820628/45/2

hesham · 10 June 2016

From Aircraft Illustrated 12/1981.

hesham · 2 October 2017

Triton said:
Lockheed missile transporter glider concept artwork

[link no longer active]

Attached to the artwork:

FOR RELEASE 6:30 AM EST 11/10/60

Sunnyvale, CA: Artist's concept of 211-ft wing-span glider that dwarfs the towing aircraft is Lockheed Missiles and Space Division's to problem of transporting huge missiles from factory to launch site. There are no existing road networks capable of accommodating the multi-tonned rockets and the only existing solution has been the use of river barges. Lockheed claims that towed gliders will be faster and cheaper and will use existing cargo aircraft. This cutaway shows how a rocket such as the Saturn would be transported.

UPI TELEPHOTO

Click to expand...

Hi,

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19601121/62/2

kitnut617 · 2 October 2017

circle-5 said:
When one Galaxy is just not enough...

(Image courtesy of eBay)

And previously studied. This model sat in the foyer at Lockheed for years apparently

hesham · 2 October 2017

Nice find Kitnut.

Triton · 2 October 2017

kitnut617 said:
circle-5 said:

When one Galaxy is just not enough...

(Image courtesy of eBay)

Click to expand...

And previously studied. This model sat in the foyer at Lockheed for years apparently

Funded by NASA, no doubt.

hesham · 13 May 2019

XB-70 said:
Seems like Lockheed put a lot of effort in the Propfan concept, with the Cl-1320 RECAT, various Civil and Military transport conepts and the PTA testbed.

From Airpower Journal 1988.

hesham · 18 October 2022

From Aviation magazine 1979.

hesham · 21 October 2022

From Aviation magazine 1980,

the Type-D is so weird,I never saw like it before in Lockheed collection.

BAFFLEDBOAR · 29 May 2023

Anybody have specifications for all of these aircraft?

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